The
Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2Six
Plays
Edited
and with an Introduction by Robert Skloot

This second volume of The Theatre
of the Holocaust, when combined with the first, represents
the most significant and comprehensive international collection
of plays on the Holocaust. Since the appearance of Volume
1in 1982, theatre and
Holocaust studies have undergone astonishing transformations.
In Volume 2, Skloot presents six plays acknowleding the
most recent theatrical forms in our post-modern age.

The
Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2 contains six plays:

Camp Comedy, Roy Kift
The career of the noted actor Kurt Gerron who was ordered by
the Nazis to make a progaganda film of a "concentration
camp" in order to deceive the Red Cross.

Dreams of
Anne Frank,
Bernard Kops
The most famous Holocaust victim uses her extraordinary imagination
to free herself from her attic prison through dreams of surrealistic
wonder.

The Portage
to San Cristobel of A.H.,
George Steiner (adapted for stage by Christopher Hampton)
The controversial political thriller based on the discovery of
Adolf Hitler, at age 90, by an Israeli search party in the Brazilian
jungle.

The Survivor
and the Translator,
Leeny Sack
A performance art piece about the playwright's grandmother, a
concentration camp survivor.

H.I.D. (Hess
is Dead),
Howard Brenton
A dramatic encounter with the modern ghosts that haunt Europe
and challenge the truth of its past.

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